Darren Rowse

Speedlinking 7 November 2006
ZeroBoss writes a post on how to get people to read what you write – good solid advice Celebrity Cowboy share his 7 Secret Strengths (a little language warning) Ben shares some of the behind the scenes workings of the new b5media homepage at Blog Herald Thom emailed me today ...more
Pro Blogging News

Speedlinking 6 November 2006
Dave young points to an older article on The Power of the About Us Page Disambiguity writes a post on tips for podcasters to hold the attention of their listeners – there might be a few applicable ones for bloggers in it too BJ asks is your blog outstanding? A ...more
Pro Blogging News

Amazon Launches Clickriver Ads
It’s been interesting to see Amazon/A9 release the beta of a new Cost Per Click (CPC) advertising program to run ads on their pages. It’s called Clickriver. I’m interested for a couple of reasons. Firstly – I think it presents bloggers an interesting opportunity to promote their blogs. Increasing numbers ...more
Pro Blogging News

Blogger Beta is ‘Feature Complete’
Blogger have announced that their Beta is ‘feature complete’. They write: “Aside from its interface being available in French, Italian, German or Spanish (with more languages on the way), you can now publish blogs via S/FTP, a feature formerly available on the older version of Blogger. Beta’s FTP functionality is ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Introduction to Blog Carnivals
Blog Carnivals are one way for bloggers to get their name out there and make connections with other bloggers. Over at fivecentnickel today nickel has posted Five Questions (and Answers) About Blog Carnivals which some bloggers will find useful. “For newer sites, the biggest reason to participate is exposure. It’s ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Blog Credibility – Where does it Come from?
Eric asks a question that caught my attention today – How Does A Niche Blogger Gain Credibility? He suggest a number of possibilities including: The number of comments Technorati ranking Bloglines ranking Alexa ranking PageRank Quality of the posts I’d agree that the most important of these is the quality ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Elite Retreat
I was a little dubious when I first heard of the Elite Retreat but as I’ve been pondering it for the last 24 hours I’m convinced it is a good idea. What is it? Well in short – it’s an opportunity to spend a couple of days with a group ...more
Pro Blogging News

AdSense Testing Ads in Password Protected Areas
Dave Taylor posts that AdSense are testing with a select group of publishers a program called ‘Site Authentication’ where they allow publishers to run their ads on password protected sites – something not previously allowed. He publishes part of an email that AdSense sent to testers: ‘”You are one of ...more
Advertising

10 + 9 Ways to Find Great Post Ideas for Your Blog
Randfish has a useful post over at SEOmoz with 10 Web Tools to Help Generate Blog Content Ideas. In it he lists a variety of tools including Google Groups, Technorati, Craigslist, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google/Yahoo News, Keyword Tools, Wikipedia, Digg/Reddit and Yahoo! Answers. I’d add to the list Topix.net (which offers ...more
Writing Content